Chinese singer proposes to Nicolas Sarkozy

Yang Erche Namu thinks Nicolas Sarkozy would be a great kisser

By Henry Samuel
in Paris

4:30PM GMT 29 Nov 2007

France's recently divorced president, Nicolas Sarkozy, returned from China this week not just with 20 billion euros in trade deals but a proposal of marriage from a well-known Chinese writer and singer.

"I want to say to the President of France: 'Choose me. I will be a perfect wife for you," said Namu - whose full name is Yang Erche Namu - in a filmed internet plea aired by French website aujourdhuilachine.com.

"I know that he had a wife who did not help him at all. I think that I suit him much better," the 41-year-old says, who also raves about "the colour of his skin".

"I'm sure that he must be a great kisser," she adds, according to the French translation.

However Mr Sarkozy, who has never met Namu should take her proposal with a pinch of salt.

She is from the Himalayan Mosuo minority near Tibet - a matriarchal people where the women never actually marry.